If you find yourself dissatisfied with where your career is, but not your home, you might be looking for a new job within your community — but how hard will finding one be in your hometown? To help, we present to you the cities in Kentucky with the strongest job markets by unemployment rates.

Many people live where they do because a job brought them there, but if you’re trying to live up to a millennial stereotype and move to Kentucky for some arbitrary reason… or even looking for a new job or moving to a state first and getting a job after, then the job market’s strength is especially important for you.

Well we went to the source of all things demographic data – the Census – to figure out which cities have the lowest unemployment. We set a threshold of city population and found data for each city in the Bluegrass State and crunched the numbers to find the cream of the crop:

Even if you’re an employer looking for a strong community to relocate to, a highly employed population is a powerful indicator of a community’s overall health. And, in that regard, St. Matthews takes the cake as the place in Kentucky with the lowest unemployment rate.

Read on to see how we help you identify those places in Kentucky that have the most robust job force.

How We Determined The Cities In Kentucky With The Lowest Unemployment Rates

Before we could dive into what Kentucky’s most employed cities were, we needed to know where to look in the first place. We settled upon any place with over 10,000 people and data available for our criteria.

This left us with 39 places in Kentucky.

We then looked at the unemployment rates to determine the cream from the crop when it comes to low unemployment, and our data comes directly from the latest American Community Survey from the Census.

We thought the rate alone was representative of the current state of each city’s job market with the potential for a person to get a job there, whether they were making an intrastate, interstate, or intercity job transfer.

We ranked all the cities for the criteria from one to 39 with one being the “most employed city in Kentucky”. Where there was a tie, the winner went to the bigger city.

If your city or town isn’t among the top ten, jump down to the bottom of the post to see a detailed chart. Otherwise, learn more about how the top ten cities achieved their potential.

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1. St. Matthews

Source: Wikipedia

Population: 17,686Unemployment Rate: 4.6%
St. Matthews comes in at the top of our list, taking the cake and not sharing a bit of it with only 4.6 percent unemployment, easily blowing away the competition as the top contender.

Certain perks come with being the gold medalist like always having a job.

2. Shelbyville

Population: 14,558Unemployment Rate: 4.9%
You might say that second place is actually the first place loser, but Shelbyville doesn’t… because it doesn’t look nearly as good on a dating profile as as “first runner-up” or “silver medalist”.

3. Fort Thomas

Source: Wikipedia

Population: 16,250Unemployment Rate: 5.0%
And rounding out our champions’ podium is Fort Thomas, earning the bronze medal with a score of 5.0 percent in the unemployment rate category.

4. Lyndon

Source: Wikipedia

Population: 11,167Unemployment Rate: 5.6%
Following right behind in the number four slot is Lyndon. With a population of 11167 residents, Lyndon is a solid place to move in Kentucky if you plan on getting your career search started.

5. Independence

Source: Wikipedia

Population: 25,638Unemployment Rate: 5.8%
The coveted #5 spot has fallen to the residents in Independence. Numbering around 25638 people, this city is doing it big with decidedly desirable unemployment rate of 5.8%.

I’m really happy for them, you know, what with their stable careers and all.

6. Berea

Source: Wikipedia

Population: 14,209Unemployment Rate: 6.3%
The city of Berea is coming in at #6 with some solid numbers — not enough to blow you away, but enough to make you think twice about moving to another city you were thinking of just because of the dog parks.

7. Georgetown

Source: Wikipedia

Population: 30,349Unemployment Rate: 6.3%
Taking the bittersweet #7 spot is the town of Georgetown. With a unemployment rate of 6.3 percent, this city is doing big things like a boss — like the one that’ll be hiring you in this solid job market.

8. Florence

Population: 31,038Unemployment Rate: 6.6%
Coming in at #8, Florence has a job market strong enough to tempt people away from some of Kentucky’s flashier cities where the unemployment rate isn’t as competitive.

9. Lawrenceburg

Source: Wikipedia

Population: 11,014Unemployment Rate: 6.7%
Finishing strong at #9 the town of Lawrenceburg, where the unemployment rate is strong enough to keep this city, which is not at allknown as “The City of Hopes and Dreams”, but should consider adopting it.

10. Jeffersontown

Source: Wikipedia

Population: 26,862Unemployment Rate: 6.8%
Rounding out our list and coming in at #10 is the city of Jeffersontown, Kentucky. Don’t forget, just because it’s last place in this top ten list, that’s still out of 39.

Jeffersontown’s parents are still proud of its life choices.

There You Have It – Unemployment Across Kentucky

There you have it folks, the Ten Cities With the Lowest Unemployment in the state of {state}. They have the numbers and jobs to back it up.

If you’re just dying to move to the {nickname} and feel like throwing caution to the wind and moving-first- getting-employed-later, stick to the cities in our top ten.